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China may back coup against Kim
The Sunday Times ^ | October 16, 2006 | Michael Sheridan

Posted on 10/15/2006 1:21:06 PM PDT by US Navy guy

THE Chinese are openly debating "regime change" in Pyongyang after last week's nuclear test by their confrontational neighbour.

Diplomats in Beijing said at the weekend that China and all the major US allies believed North Korea's claim that it had detonated a nuclear device. US director of national intelligence John Negroponte circulated a report that radiation had been detected at a site not far from the Chinese border.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: badhair; bolthole; china; northkorea
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1 posted on 10/15/2006 1:21:07 PM PDT by US Navy guy
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To: US Navy guy

and the new gov't that get's installed, is it a puppet regime of China?


2 posted on 10/15/2006 1:22:16 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: US Navy guy

China can have it.


3 posted on 10/15/2006 1:23:18 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: oceanview

Just like the one that is there now.


4 posted on 10/15/2006 1:23:19 PM PDT by US Navy guy
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To: oceanview

Well of course (and who cares), but anything's better than Kim.


5 posted on 10/15/2006 1:23:26 PM PDT by ivy (Ivy's ex bf)
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Wonder if Putin will agree? History and alllll. Most likely the Clintonites will have something respectable to say about this. `sarcasm`
6 posted on 10/15/2006 1:23:37 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: oceanview

Who cares? As long as they arent nuking people. What difference does it make? better a Chinese puppet governmant than a raving lunatic.


7 posted on 10/15/2006 1:23:47 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: oceanview

As nice as it would be to get rid of Chia head, I'm not sure we need Chinese expansion to the Korean penninsula.


8 posted on 10/15/2006 1:23:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: oceanview

It would be a better funded and more stable government than what's in there now, and the US didn't even lose a life making it happen. Give it to China.


9 posted on 10/15/2006 1:24:13 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: oceanview

Doesn't matter this one is a puppet of China.


10 posted on 10/15/2006 1:24:16 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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and the new gov't that get's installed, is it a puppet regime of China?

Why not? We have seemingly conceded out "global leader status" to them.

11 posted on 10/15/2006 1:24:17 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (If you dont vote on election day, then who are you electing?)
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careful waht you wish for.. it might come back to bite us. China wants Taiwan as well.


12 posted on 10/15/2006 1:24:32 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Sir Gawain

Amen.


13 posted on 10/15/2006 1:25:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: oceanview

*our


14 posted on 10/15/2006 1:25:07 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (If you dont vote on election day, then who are you electing?)
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> some of the North Korean elite are seeking their boltholes in China <

Maybe some Aussie will translate "bolthole" for the benefit of us Americanos?


15 posted on 10/15/2006 1:25:38 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: cripplecreek

I think South Korea's economy would benefit greatly from a Chinese NK. Wouldn't the borders be basically open? SK would no longer have to worry about a crazy neighbor as well.


16 posted on 10/15/2006 1:26:17 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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The Chinese would still be calling shots, so North Korea might just be a "kinder and gentler hell."


17 posted on 10/15/2006 1:26:34 PM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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That's just sad.


18 posted on 10/15/2006 1:27:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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Then he would really be ronery...


19 posted on 10/15/2006 1:27:58 PM PDT by RacerX1128
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I don't think CHina or SK wants an "open border" with NK.

Imagine the refugees...


20 posted on 10/15/2006 1:28:40 PM PDT by ivy (Ivy's ex bf)
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